worn out - Story 168605 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the spare room was close and still. She felt leaden, every movement an effort. The task felt daunting.

A picture. That was all it took. Her great-aunt, lauded for her lifelong dedication to her children and her husband, locked in a passionate embrace with a dashing stranger. The story was always a portrait of unwavering devotion.

She felt a hollowness in her stomach. The narrative she'd been raised with felt fragile, ephemeral. Her gaze drifted to the window, to the world outside, and she found it hard to imagine moving.

Emotion: worn out

Cluster: Fatigue / Lethargy

PC1 (Valence): -1.12 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -1.20

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion worn out. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 worn out stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the worn out emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the worn out vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😞`	0.265
`😩`	0.234
`疲れ`	0.226
`que`	0.221
`sighed`	0.221

Suppressed:

`B`	-0.357
`because`	-0.228
`l`	-0.222
`భి`	-0.208
`あくまで`	-0.208